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Author David Grann tells the story of an 18th-century British warship that wrecked along the coast of Patagonia. The survivors sailed thousands of miles to safety, and later faced charges of mutiny.

Author David Grann tells the story of an 18th-century British warship that wrecked along the coast of Patagonia. The survivors sailed thousands of miles to safety, and later faced charges of mutiny.

Grann, the author of thinking-person’s adventures including “The Lost City of Z” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” (soon to be a Martin Scorsese movie), has a rare gift for applying the rigors of narrative nonfiction to the stuff of myth and legend.

The Shipwrecks of Monroe County David L. Eby There have been well over 6,000 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes which caused an estimated loss of 30,000 mariner’s (sailors) lives. It is believed that there are over 500 wrecks in Lake Superior, most of which are undiscovered. By far the most famous shipwreck in the history of the Great Lakes was the giant freighter Edmund Fitzgerald, which has become truly legendary in large part due to a haunting ballad written and sung by Canadian Gordon Lightfoo...